Ukrainians Hit the Polls in Hopes for Stability

5/25/2014 5:49AM

Ukrainians headed to the polls to select the country's fifth president since the fall of the Soviet Union, even as a sizable swath of the population were unable to vote. WSJ’s James Marson reports. Photo: AP

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